My day-job workflow involves using multiple workdirs attached to a
bunch of bare repositories. Such repositories are stored inside of
a directory called "foo.git", which means `git rev-parse --git-dir`
will return "." and not ".git". Under such conditions new-workdir
was getting confused about where the Git repository it was supplied
is actually located.
If we get "." for the result of --git-dir query it means we should
use the user supplied path as-is, and not attempt to perform any
magic on it, as the path is directly to the repository.
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
rev-parse --git-dir outputs a full path - except for the single case
of when the path would be $(pwd)/.git, in which case it outputs simply
.git. Check for this special case and handle it.
Signed-off-by: Julian Phillips <julian@quantumfyre.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
On one particular system I like to keep a cluster of bare Git
repositories and spawn new-workdirs off of them. Since the bare
repositories don't have working directories associated with them
they don't have a .git/ subdirectory that hosts the repository we
are linking to.
Using a bare repository as the backing repository for a workdir
created by this script does require that the user delete core.bare
from the repository's configuration file, so that Git auto-senses
the bareness of a repository based on pathname information, and
not based on the config file.
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Add a simple script to create a working directory that uses symlinks
to point at an exisiting repository. This allows having different
branches in different working directories but all from the same
repository.
Based on a description from Junio of how he creates multiple working
directories[1]. With the following caveat:
"This risks confusion for an uninitiated if you update a ref that
is checked out in another working tree, but modulo that caveat
it works reasonably well."
[1] http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/41513/
Signed-off-by: Julian Phillips <julian@quantumfyre.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
